Unbroken

Rating: 2/5

Unbroken is Angelina Jolie's first movie as a director... so we have to watch it. Sadly there's a but. For a first movie it's not that bad, and a nice try, but there is some plot holes. For example how a person stranded on a boat in the middle of the sea would grow a goatee only and not have a beard, and how will he have a clean shave at the camp he was captured at? Did the Japanese give him a Gillette fusion pro glide? And how on earth when Louis Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) throws a bandage soaked of blood did the sharks avoid it? In real life sharks would rage like hell at first site of blood near it, it would unleash pure rage.
Let's put these minor things aside and move along. Sadly i can't say i enjoyed the movie, it's actions are at a very slow rate, the acting is very simple, although there is not a star name in the movie therefore it's understandable, the message is well received but the movie for me was far from enjoyable. 
It narrates the brutal acts of war in the best way, the actors lost a significant amount of weight to play the role of war prisoners perfectly. 
For Angelina it's a good start, not a great one but yet promising. 
I think we can expect something a lot better from her in the future, i'm not saying the movie is bad, but it's not the blockbuster of a film one would expect from a star name making its debut in directing and also in a war movie, that's not easy for sure, it's the kind of movies that demands a lot, so we'll see what Angelina has in her bag for us in the future.